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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 262 of 446 · Second Series: Time and Eternity

A Country Burial

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Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

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